Re: Think I found errors in apt-get, need help with wine package
On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 10:34 +0000, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 01:59 -0800, Scott Ritchie wrote:
> > My package is a rather unusual change, so it wouldn't surprise me if
> > I've uncovered a few bugs in apt-get. I know for certain I've found at
> > least one.
>
> Not that haven't already been reported, afaics.
>
> > This doesn't make any sense, since the package replaces libwine-twain as
> > well. dpkg should be removing them both.
>
> It looks like dpkg is parsing the Replaces/Conflicts headers in the
> order in which they're written. Does it work if you move libwine-twain
> before libwine in those headers?
>
> If not, turn on dpkg's debugging features and examine the output.
>
Moving things around is only a partial workaround. dpkg still gets
hopelessly confused trying to remove libwine, as the old wine package
depended on it (but the new one replaces it). Here's what I get after
moving libwine to the end of the list:
$ dpkg -i --dry-run wine_0.0.20041019-1_i386.deb
dpkg: considering removing wine-doc in favour of wine ...
dpkg: yes, will remove wine-doc in favour of wine.
dpkg: considering removing wine-utils in favour of wine ...
dpkg: yes, will remove wine-utils in favour of wine.
dpkg: considering removing libwine-alsa in favour of wine ...
dpkg: yes, will remove libwine-alsa in favour of wine.
dpkg: considering removing libwine-print in favour of wine ...
dpkg: yes, will remove libwine-print in favour of wine.
dpkg: considering removing libwine-twain in favour of wine ...
dpkg: yes, will remove libwine-twain in favour of wine.
dpkg: considering removing libwine in favour of wine ...
dpkg: no, cannot remove libwine (--auto-deconfigure will help):
wine depends on libwine (= 0.0.20040615-1ubuntu1)
libwine is to be removed.
dpkg: regarding wine_0.0.20041019-1_i386.deb containing wine:
wine conflicts with libwine
libwine (version 0.0.20040615-1ubuntu1) is installed.
dpkg: error processing wine_0.0.20041019-1_i386.deb (--install):
conflicting packages - not installing wine
Errors were encountered while processing:
wine_0.0.20041019-1_i386.deb
Is this an error in dpkg? I'm not sure how that could be a desirable
feature.
Strangely, apt-get install wine works, but apt-get dist-upgrade holds
wine back, I suspect for the reason above.
> > The second thing to notice is that when I run apt-get install wine I get
> > the following:
> >
> > Reading Package Lists... Done
> > Building Dependency Tree... Done
> > Suggested packages:
> > wine-utils winesetup binfmt-support
> > The following packages will be REMOVED:
> > libwine libwine-alsa libwine-arts libwine-dev libwine-jack libwine-nas
> > libwine-print libwine-twain wine-doc winesetuptk
> > The following packages will be upgraded:
> > wine
> > 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 10 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> > Need to get 13.5MB of archives.
> > After unpacking 3855kB disk space will be freed.
> > Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
> >
> >
> > Two things are wrong here. For starters, the suggested packages being
> > displayed are wrong - those were only suggested in the old version of
> > the package, and are now obsolete (and even conflicted) by the new
> > version.
>
> Yep, that would be
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=243943 and the bug
> merged with it. (As a 30-second look at the bug page would have shown,
> fwiw).
>
Hey, I didn't report it, only mention it in my email here. If I was
going to report it I'd have looked first ;)
> > The second is that, although apt is removing libwine-dev, it
> > is not replacing it with wine-dev.
>
> That's to be expected, you appear to be misunderstanding what a
> Replaces: header does. The purpose of the Replaces: is to say "if I
> install wine-dev, then remove libwine-dev first". It does *not* mean
> "automatically install wine-dev if libwine-dev is removed".
>
> In the apt-get invocation you quoted, libwine-dev is being remove due to
> the fact that it depends on libwine, not for any reason associated with
> the new `wine-dev' package. If you want both installed, then you either
> need to `apt-get install wine wine-dev' or `apt-get install wine-dev',
> which will automatically pull in wine due to the dependency.
>
> > So, what's the verdict: Bug in my package control file, bug in apt, bug
> > in dpkg, or combination of all three?
>
> A known bug in apt, a probable feature of dpkg, and a bug in your
> understanding, afaics.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Adam
>
>
Thank you muchly,
Scott Ritchie
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